Zhu Lan was shocked, despondent, and helpless.
She felt that the plan of the third helmsman might just go to waste, entirely impractical. They must have miscalculated something; how could they outsmart Ling Hua? A woman capable of silencing the civil and military officials was not someone to be underestimated.
She never took the Green Forest seriously.
The Green Forest was precisely the one that didn't dare to confront the Court directly. To force out a new leader and annihilate the entire Green Forest in the process, they wouldn't just lose all standing, their very lives would likely be in the hands of the military. She knew, such a deal was too uneconomical.
